"It's too late!" After seeing the bottomless pit and the white-robed cultivator vanish, the human-headed demonic octopus let out a long breath of relief. Then it threw its head back and laughed. With a double-edged blade bearing a demonic-octopus pattern in hand, it pointed into the void, and ice and fire intertwined upon the blade, transforming into six long, rolling demonic-qi whips that lashed toward the gathered demons, Lu Xiaotian, and Xiang Qingcheng.
"After lying dormant for countless years, my Xunyin Demonic Octopus tribe has finally reached the day when we can see the light of day again. None of you here are leaving today. Stay and serve as sacrificial banners for my tribe. Once the armies of my Devil Race emerge from that abyss, we'll scour this continent in blood, let overwhelming demonic qi blot out the sun and moon, and turn everywhere the demonic banners reach into demonic territory!"
"What a boast! Even if a Spirit Transformation-level devil came to this Crimson Abyss Continent, it wouldn't dare claim it could retreat unscathed. And yet a mere Twelfth-Tier Demonic Beast, not even at Spirit Transformation, dares to spout such arrogant nonsense. Does it really think it's invincible beneath heaven?"
The tortoise demon, which had suffered greatly at the hands of this human-headed demonic octopus earlier, cursed, "Everyone, this human-headed demonic octopus's ice-fire restriction is indeed formidable. But the restriction relies on the balance of ice and fire, yin and yang. That human friend has already extinguished quite a bit of demonic flame. As long as we don't attack recklessly and instead destroy some more demonic flame, throwing its yin-yang balance into disorder, this restriction will break at once!"
As the saying went, a thousand-year-old ox and an eighty-thousand-year-old tortoise. This tortoise demon was an unusual breed among tortoises, with